ADMIRAL JOHN W. PHILLIP - TYPED LETTER SIGNED - HFSID 262870

ADMIRAL JOHN W. PHILIP
Rear Admiral John W. Philip signed this typed letter - "Since mailing my letter, I have received the enclosed which I take pleasure in forwarding to you" on stationery of the New York Navy Yard. With a small b/w printed photo of Philip in uniform and a chart of the shore defenses in Algiers.
Typed letter signed "J.H. Philip" as a rear admiral in the United States Navy.1 page, 7x4¾, on stationery of the Commandant's Office of the New York Navy Yard. Mounted on a 9x11½ album leaf with rounded right corners and with a 4½x6 b/w printed photo of Philip affixed on front and a 2¼x3 printed b/w photo of Captain A. T. Mahan affixed on verso. Blue ink numeral printed in top right corner. In full: "Since mailing my letter, I have received the enclosed which I take pleasure in forwarding to you." Lightly toned, soiled, creased and rippled. Show-through from adhesive under letter (does not touch signature). Missing bottom left corner. Torn from binding at left edge. Lightly discolored at top, right and bottom edge. Mounting residue on verso. Otherwise in fine condition. Accompanied by: Unsigned illustration. Pencil notations in top right corner in unknown hand. B/w, 11¾x8¼, mounted to an 11¾x9½ sheet of paper. View of the shore defenses in Algiers, published by Alexander Smith. Lightly toned and creased. Illustration has light tears in top and left edge. Mounting paper is lightly foxed, soiled and stained, has missing corners, light tears in all edges and lightly discolored edges. Illustration was folded twice; comes folded once. American naval officer Philip (1840-1900) commanded the battleship USS Texas during the Spanish-American War and participated in the capture of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and in the Battle of Santiago - despite having suffered at least two heart attacks in the previous three years. His war service earned him a promotion from captain to commodore in August of 1898 and to rear admiral in 1899, the same year he was made Commandant of the New York Navy Yard. Philip graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1861 and spent the American Civil War in South Carolinian waters; he was wounded in action in July of 1863. He appears to have gotten his first command on the gunboat USS Monocacy (1873-1874), and he also commanded the gunboat USS Adams (1876-1883) and, during the first half of the 1890s, the cruisers USS Atlanta and USS New York. Philip also led the circumnavigating Woodruff Scientific Expedition (1879-1880).